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Acts · read by Michael Haykin
79 verses, in order. Only the verses Michael read aloud are shown.
Acts 1
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In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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until the day He was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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So when they came together, they asked Him, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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Jesus replied, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
Acts 6
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In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, "It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint this responsibility to themRead from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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They presented these seven to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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but they could not stand up to his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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where they presented false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
Acts 7
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Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these charges true?"Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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And Stephen declared: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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and told him, 'Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.'Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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'But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,' God said, 'and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.'Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with himRead from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father's house.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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When he was set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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'Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it."Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
Acts 8
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And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen's death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
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But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.Read from ESV · The Spirit and the Word in Acts
Acts 16
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So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
Acts 19
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And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
Acts 28
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Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts
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Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.Read from ESV · Overview of the Book of Acts